An essentially geometrically frustrated magnetic object: an exact solution
Abstract
Starting from the archetypical geometrically frustrated magnetic objects -- equilateral triangle and tetrahedron -- we consider an imaginary object: a multidimensional tetrahedron with spins in the each vertex and equal Heisenberg magnetic exchange along each edge. Many-particle case is obtained by setting dimensionality to high numbers, hence providing likely the most geometrically frustrated magnetic system ever possible. This problem has an exact solution for each , obtained by simple student-level approach. As a result, this imaginary object clearly demonstrates at all the features characteristic for the real geometrically frustrated magnetic systems: highly-degenerate ground state; absence of the magnetic phase transition; perfect Curie-Weiss behavior down to ; and vanishingly small exchange energy per one spin.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1504.05622,
title = {An essentially geometrically frustrated magnetic object: an exact solution},
author = {A. Vl. Andrianov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1504.05622},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
9 pages, 3 figures